“Government does things not for profit but to build a country”
In the Greens’ fiscal plan policy speech, Chloe Swarbrick lays out what good government is, and lays down a challenge to National’s Minister of Finance Nicola Willis.
energy
2026 oil crisis
Our Worst Recession
The very worst crisis is the one from which you learn nothing. New Zealand has not had an economic stagnation and housing market price decline this bad since the 1970s.
Iranian Ambassador: why the US blundered so badly, the state of diplomacy and ways forward.
Iranian Ambassador Reza Nazar Ahari provides some fascinating analysis into why the Western strategy on Iran has been so disastrously flawed.
Defusing the goddamn ticking time bomb
Our reliance on fossil fuels is a ticking timebomb, There Are Real Alternatives, and the Green Party have a plan
Walking backwards off the cliff
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
“Interest rates, oil and gold”
That RNZ tricolon has always been infuriating fluff. In the real world, analysts warn we are heading for a cliff.
Missing in action
As this Government’s inaction over the oil crisis becomes more pronounced more and more people are noticing that Christopher Luxon is missing in action.
In a crisis the left does better
The Government’s complete reluctance to do anything about the approaching oil crisis is in stark contrast to the approach adopted by more progressive administrative governments overseas.
A change of government this close or this far away…
reasons to feel hopeful but not complacent.
“The future of everything is in New Zealand-made energy”
This is the kind of Just Transition story that turns us in the right direction.
The oil crisis: what we should be doing now
Responses to the government’s National Fuel Plan.
Wise Response: What can I do in response to the Fuel Supply Crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand?
In the tradition of Community Mutual Aid, Wise Response have published When the Trucks Stop: Mutual Aid Arrangements for a Fuel-Constrained New Zealand
The Government’s National Fuel Plan
Nicola Willis and Shane Jones present the details in the current plan for the Hormz oill crisis.
Keep calm and screw it up later – current government policy on fuel
Officials have been doing private, media excluded, webinars with selected businesses. That seems pretty dodgy while our diesel stocks look like they will run out in a few weeks. Rather than (maybe) tomorrow, the government should have been rationing the unproductive Remuera tractors weeks ago.